Reading the Letters of the Apostle Peter

These two letters express the mind and heart of the first century Church

and thus are formative for the faith.

Four Classes: September 24th, October 2nd, October 9th, October 16th, 7 p.m.

This is a Zoom only class.  Attend by clicking on this link.

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Dr. James Patrick is a theologian, teacher, and sometime apologist. He received his doctorate in theology from Trinity College in Toronto and taught and served in administrative positions at the University of Tennessee and the University of Dallas before founding in 1981 the College of Saint Thomas More in Fort Worth, Texas. His writings include Architecture in Tennessee: 1768–1897, The Magdalen Metaphysicals: Idealism and Orthodoxy at Oxford, 1900–1945, The Beginning of Collegiate Education west of the Appalachians, and Andrew of Bethsaida and the Johannine Circle. His recent book is “The Making of the Christian Mind: The Adventure of the Paraclete,” available through Amazon.


Wrong Order

Last week it was suggested that everything matters because everything is properly an expression of the order of God’s own glory, with glory identified as the transcendent ground not only of ideas but of every event, action, and object, its ...
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Glory

We beheld His Glory the glory as of the Only Son of the Father.                                                                       I John 1: 1    We were witnesses to His majesty.  For when He  received honor and glory from God the Father and the voice ...
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/ Dr. Patrick, Thoughts on Gospel

Democracy and Danger

Mr. Eden in the house the other day expressed pain at the occurrences in Greece, ‘the home of democracy.’  Is he ignorant or insincere?  ‘Democracy’ was not in Greek a word of approval but was nearly equivalent to ‘mob-rule.’    ...
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Suffering and Glory

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us.                                                 Romans 8:18 The world has its glories; as Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote, there is a goodness “deep down ...
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Chosen

Therefore, if you hearken to my voice and keep my covenant,
you shall be my special possession,
dearer to me than all other people,
though all the earth is mine.
You shall be to me a kingdom of priests, a ...
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Oppression and Its Victims in a Perfect World

Presented at Text & Talk with Dr Patrick – Saturday, 17 June 2023 Oppression and its victims are not to my knowledge topics heavily canvassed in Hebrew culture, classical or medieval culture.   It is remarkable that in the Old ...
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2023 Thomas Howard Lecture

CHANGE OF VENUE NOTICE: We will now meet in the Parish Center at Christ the King Church. Park and enter the building on the North Side of the church Register Now to Attend: Click Here to Register for the Thomas ...
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